Bhupendra Cement Works Railway
Bhupendra Cement Works Railway
The Bhupendra Cement Works, 3 miles (5km) north of Surajpur, Chhattisgarh District, Central Provinces, opened in 1939 by the ‘Associated Cement Company Limited’. When first built it had a 2ft/610mm narrow gauge(NG) railway line in the quarry for transporting chalk from the quarry to the aerial ropeway which carried the chalk to the works [1]..
The works were to the east of the Surajpur Halt Station. The records show that the works operated BG locomotives [1], so undoubtedly was connected to the ‘Annupur-Ambikpur Branch Line’ which at Annupur Junction joined the Bengal-Nagpur Railway (BNR) ‘Katni Branch Line’.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compliled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entr yHR04 page 159